Events

IFOA Barrie

  • 7:30 PM
  • November 1, 2011
  • Barrie Public Library, Painswick Branch
  • Barrie
  • Cost: $10
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Location information

Barrie Public Library, Painswick Branch
48 Dean Avenue
Barrie   L4N 0C2

Join us for readings by Stephen Kelman, Joshua Knelman and Meg Wolitzer.

Stephen Kelman presents his debut novel Pigeon English, a spellbinding portrayal of a Ghanaian boy in London balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he lives.

After immersing himself in the mysterious world of international art theft for four years, Joshua Knelman presents Hot Art, a fast-paced true-crime story exploring the seedy-underbelly he became so familiar with.

Meg Wolitzer’s latest, The Uncoupling, is a Greek drama-inspired novel about a tight-knit group of men and women in a high school community who are forced to look at their shared history and at their sexual selves in a new light.



Participants

  • Stephen Kelman

    Stephen Kelman

    After finishing his degree Stephen Kelman (UK) worked as a warehouse operative, a care worker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Kelman [...]

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  • Joshua Knelman

    Joshua Knelman

    Award-winning arts and investigative journalist and editor, Joshua Knelman (Canada) was a founding member of The Walrus magazine. His writing has appeared in the Walrus, National Post, Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, CBCarts.ca, Toronto Life and Quill & Quire, among [...]

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  • Meg Wolitzer

    Meg Wolitzer

    Meg Wolitzer (USA) is the author of eight previous novels, including The Ten-Year Nap, The Position and The Wife. Her short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Wolitzer’s latest, The Uncoupling, is a [...]

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  • deWitt, Patrick (web)

    Patrick deWitt

    Patrick deWitt (Canada) is the author of two novels, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers. He grew up in Vancouver and currently lives in Oregon with this wife and son. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Scotiabank [...]

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